Brookline This Summer: New Openings, Thursday Rituals, and a Coolidge Corner in Motion
The Thursday afternoon walk from Harvard Street to the Centre Street West lot looks a little different this year. There are two new coffee counters within a few blocks of each other, a Colombian steakhouse taking over a decade-old French address in Washington Square, and a food-hall concept from the parent company of Grubhub prepping a storefront next to Congregation Kehillath Israel. If you have lived in Brookline for a while, the map you carry in your head is quietly being redrawn.
For a town that reads as settled, Brookline is having an unusually active summer at street level. The activity is not evenly distributed. It is clustering in three walkable pockets, Coolidge Corner, Washington Square, and Cleveland Circle, and each pocket is picking up a different kind of anchor. Read together, the openings say something about where the neighborhood's daily routine is headed, and where the farmers market, the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and Brookline Booksmith remain the fixed points around which the newer arrivals orbit.
Coolidge Corner is where the summer's most visible changes are.
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